Shipping

Shipping and maritime transport is generally speaking a set of activities, whose purpose is to organize the transport of goods, the transport container. The need to develop a definition for forwarding within the existing logistics systems and transport was caused by two factors. First, These are trade issues, where the basic premise is the need to forge definition of separation of ownership of the goods (np. container transport) from taking up execution services its distribution. Secondly, it is important to the function carrier (functional). The freight carrier structure representing the supply-side market TLS, while the other features a fully contracting transport service, which represents the structure of the demand market of forwarding services.

According to the most popular interpretations of legal Freight Forwarder It is legal entity (firm) or physical (entrepreneur), the aim of which is to organize the transport of cargo. Cargo defined salary forwarding services in maritime transport to other legal or natural persons or for their own needs. Forwarder organizes transport, transport container, it is responsible for the formal and legal, np. exposing forwarding documents ( or waybills depending on which to transport konener-transfer agent) In everyday practice, the transport forwarder as defined forwarding companies.

In another approach forwarding is defined as each economic activity involving the organization of cargo on behalf of the legal entity or natural person and the group performed additional activities, resulting from the order details.

Please note, that the next transport and forwarding logistics It is one of the elements of the TSL sector (transport-forwarding-logistics).

Shipping, like any business activity, subject to multiple classifications. Also in the maritime transport. This also applies to services, transport container and container transportation. For example, one can distinguish forwarding service which is material and which is forwarding provision free of.

First of them, intended for sale, It is a public activity, to which access, accordance with market principles, It can not be limited. With the forwarding service can be used by any market participant. While Forwarding as providing free It is part of a broader economic process, to which access is only its direct manufacturer. It calls the action Forwarding, but it closes it as part of a wider organization performing the final product. In practice, the freight forwarding business has a name forwarding their own.

From the point of view of the complexity of the forwarding process (including relationships: transport container and container transport) significant breakdown of this activity is to extract:

• freight modal balance
• intermodal freight

Cargo movement by organizing activities, He becomes responsible for the execution to delivery:

• commutation,
• odwozu,
• carriage,
• loading,
• unloading,
• reloading.